Saturday, December 24, 2016

Prelates’ ‘correction’ of Pontiff could come early next year: Cardinal Burke

Cardinal Raymond Burke has said that he and other prelates may issue a
“formal correction” of Pope Francis sometime early next year, if the
Pontiff does not answer the dubia submitted to him about the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia.

In an exclusive interview with LifeSite News, Cardinal Burke said
that a “correction” of the Pope, if it is to be issued, would probably
be issued sometime after the Christmas season. He said:

It would be direct, even as the dubia are, only in this case there
would no longer be raising questions, but confronting the confusing
statements in Amoris Laetitia with what has been the Church’s constant teaching and practice, and thereby correcting Amoris Laetitia.

Cardinal Burke indicated that the dubia could not be left unanswered,
“because they have to do with the very foundations of the moral life
and of the Church’s constant teaching.”

The American cardinal, who is now patron of the Knight of Malta, said that the decision to issue a correction, if the dubia
are not answered, would be made “with the absolute respect for the
office of the successor of St. Peter.”

The move would be required, he
said, for “safeguarding that office and its exercise.”